Este jueves, el Gobierno de Brasil, que actualmente tiene la presidencia rotatoria de los BRICS, publicó un informe en el que garantiza que continuará promoviendo el uso de divisas locales en operaciones comerciales de los países miembros del bloque, a pesar de las amenazas del presidente de E...

El Departamento de Defensa de los Estados Unidos pagó millones de dólares a la agencia de noticias británica ‘Reuters’, para llevar a cabo un programa de “defensa activa contra la ingeniería social” y de “engaño social a gran escala”. Los pagos de...

Refiners have started to produce growing volumes of cleaner fuels and petrochemicals, betting on the next big drivers of global fuel and chemical demand, as consumption growth of conventional transportation fuels has weakened. Due to the pivot to fuels from renewable feedstocks and increased petrochemical volumes, refiners have raised demand for catalysts and additives to process renewable feedstocks such as cooking oil. “What we see is alternative feedstocks, the blending in of some components with biomass background at refineries in the…

OPEC+ Heavyweights Stick to Quotas, Smaller Producers Become a Liability - OPEC+ countries produced 40.54 million b/d in January, continuing a three-month streak of relative stagnation as month-over-month changes remained as low as 20,000 b/d amidst improved compliance. - Nevertheless, Kazakhstan will become a problem for the oil group as it is set to become the largest overproducer with Tengiz ramping up production from 600,000 b/d in January to 900,000 b/d this month. - OPEC+ plans to start gradually easing its 2.2 million b/d voluntary cuts…

This week in the crude oil market was a rollercoaster of price swings as bullish supply concerns clashed with bearish macroeconomic and geopolitical developments. The early week saw oil extend its gains on supply constraints from Russia and Iran, but prices reversed sharply midweek as rising U.S. inventories, a hawkish Federal Reserve, and renewed optimism about a resolution to the Russia-Ukraine war weighed on sentiment. With crude prices now struggling to hold gains, traders are questioning whether bullish momentum can be sustained or if further…

Politics, Geopolitics & Conflict Libya's Minister of State in Tripoli (the Dbeibah government), Adel Jumaa, survived an assassination attempt on Wednesday on a Tripoli highway. He remains in stable condition in the hospital after being shot. Despite the fact that the oil is still flowing, Libya’s cities have serious security issues with various factions still jockeying for power. These armed groups have continued to amass more power, and we expect fairly frequent security disruptions, some of which may impact the oil and gas industry.…

Is this the end of the war in Ukraine? Sure. This can be whatever we spin it to be. It will be a messy eternally-frozen conflict one way or another. On February 12, we saw a declaration from Washington to the effect that Ukrainian territory will be handed over to Russia and Ukraine will not be joining NATO–ever. There will be some banal “peacekeeping” force in the benign Western European style (Bosnians will tragically remember this), and that’s about it. Trump and Putin have agreed to start the peace process immediately.…

Refiners have started to produce growing volumes of cleaner fuels and petrochemicals, betting on the next big drivers of global fuel and chemical demand, as consumption growth of conventional transportation fuels has weakened. Due to the pivot to fuels from renewable feedstocks and increased petrochemical volumes, refiners have raised demand for catalysts and additives to process renewable feedstocks such as cooking oil. “What we see is alternative feedstocks, the blending in of some components with biomass background at refineries in the…

El viceministro de Políticas Antibloqueo de Venezuela, William Castillo, acusó públicamente a sindicatos de mercenarios estadounidenses de llevar a cabo operaciones encubiertas en territorio venezolano. De acuerdo con Castillo, estas acciones incluyen asesoramiento y entrenamiento m...

El Servicio de Aduanas y Protección Fronteriza (ICE, por sus siglas en inglés) dio a conocer cuáles son los estados en los que se han registrado un mayor número de arrestos. En el ranking de los primeros cinco lugares, se encuentra una importante ciudad del estado de Florida. ...

Oil prices are rising despite concerns about Trump imposing tariffs on trading partners and talk of a peace deal between Russia and Ukraine. Oil prices are now set to end the week with a gain, ending a three-week losing streak. Backwardation has eased in global crude futures and oil is set to rebound from three straight weeks of losses. This week’s largest geopolitical development – the prospect of a Russian-Ukrainian negotiated settlement – has oddly failed to push prices significantly lower, even though it had a massive and…

Venezuela expresó su repudio categórico ante las declaraciones "falsas y temerarias" realizadas recientemente por el comandante del Comando Sur de los Estados Unidos, Alvin Holsey, En comunicado difundido por el canciller de la República, Yván Gil, el Gobierno del pr...

Chinese companies have launched a new ultradeep drilling campaign in the Taklimakan Desert in northwest China, hoping to unlock more oil and gas resources from deep underground. The drilling campaign, in China’s Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, aims to reach oil and gas resources that are about 8,000 meters (26,247 ft) underground. One well, the Manshen 72-H6 in Xayar County, is planned to reach a depth of 8,735 meters (28,658 ft). In recent years, China has intensified ultra-deep drilling, both onshore and offshore, looking to unlock more…

Chinese companies have launched a new ultradeep drilling campaign in the Taklimakan Desert in northwest China, hoping to unlock more oil and gas resources from deep underground. The drilling campaign, in China’s Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, aims to reach oil and gas resources that are about 8,000 meters (26,247 ft) underground. One well, the Manshen 72-H6 in Xayar County, is planned to reach a depth of 8,735 meters (28,658 ft). In recent years, China has intensified ultra-deep drilling, both onshore and offshore, looking to unlock more…

El gobierno cubano anunció la suspensión de las actividades laborales y docentes para este viernes 14 y el sábado 15 de febrero debido a la grave crisis energética que atraviesa el país. "Teniendo en cuenta la s...

Demand for petrochemicals in India is expected to remain resilient as consumption of products is rebounding, executives in the industry told Reuters this week. India’s petrochemicals demand will be a bright spot among the major markets, amid a slowdown in demand in other markets, most notably China, and new supply coming from new plants in Asia and the Middle East, according to the executives who spoke to Reuters on the sidelines of the India Energy Week 2025 conference. “We are seeing good local demand in the sectors like propylene…

El Instituto Nacional de Meteorología e Hidrología (Inameh) informó que para este viernes 14 de febrero de 2025, prevalecerán condiciones atmosféricamente estables en la mayor parte del territorio nacional.  

Los cuerpos de seguridad del Estado y organismos de inteligencia del país desmantelaron una nueva operación terrorista de grupos irregulares vinculados con la ultraderecha, que pretendía, entre otras cosas, atacar fuertes militares, informó el vicepresidente Sectorial de Política, Seguridad Ci...

The UK’s energy regulator, Ofgem, is seeking feedback on proposed changes to the grid connection policy from a first-come first-served approach to prioritizing projects where generation capacity is needed the most and projects are at a more advanced stage of development. Ofgem is seeking to reform the current connections regulation which has become inadequate as some early-queued projects have fallen behind schedule while more advanced projects are waiting for years to connect to the grid. The proposed reform will fast-track solar and wind…

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